George Soros, of all people -- the man known to some as the world's richest liberal (unless you count Bill Gates) -- said that Harken Energy (which he owned a third of at the time, because they bought out his Soros Oil) bought out George W. Bush's disintegrating Spectrum 7 company in 1986 not because it would make any profit, but because he was buying the political influence of the Bushes. An awful lot of investments in George W. Bush companies have the appearance of being made for that same purpose. Soros said that the influence "didn't come to anything" in the end. A spokesman later said that Soros's statement was taken out of context, making it appear that he was personally involved in the decision when he was not. Soros dumped his Harken stock in 1989, long before it ran into trouble.

Soros is another Abramov type crook.